Slipslide Ride
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| Game | Donkey Kong Country |
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| World name | Gorilla Glacier |
| Level name | Slipslide Ride |
| Previous level | Snow Barrel Blast |
| Next level | Ice Age Alley |
Difficulty:
- Optimal: 4/10
- JoeRopes: 3341/10
- No Major Skips: 8/10
All Stages
Safe
Notes:
- Spawn the first Kremling as soon as possible and bounce off him at the peak of his fifth jump. You can opt for the sixth jump to be safer.
- Scaling the final rope quickly is really tough. Make sure you keep holding left until you're all the way off the rope. Practice lots and don't get discouraged.
- You can also jump between the two ropes, but it's significantly slower.
Optimal
Notes:
- Jumping up the first rope saves ~8 frames per jump
- To get into the warp barrel with Diddy, you must jump onto a ledge above the screen. To get above the screen, hold down as you jump up and keep it pressed. To jump off, rotate to down left and hop off. Releasing down at any point will push you back onto the screen immediately. Mash Y before the platform to roll immediately.
- To skip the first rope, roll from the middle of the platform and do a very quick right-left when you're at the same height as the bee. You only need to press right for three frames to dodge the bee, so make it as quick as possible. A slower skip doesn't save any time at all.
- Note that the rope skip only saves half a second at best and can kill you in various ways (hitting the bees, missing the rope, accidentally grabbing the bee rope and instantly falling). If you aren't doing it perfectly, you will lose time, so it's not particularly worth doing until you're at a very high-level time.
No Major Skips
Notes:
- Any time saved by jumping up blue ropes is negligible, so it's not necessary at all
- Rolling typically doesn't save time on icy terrain.
- Buffering jumps on upwards slopes is important for not losing speed
- At :11 you can avoid grabbing the rope as long as you run off the edge without jumping or rolling first
- The jump off the rope to the left at :18 actually does save time because that part of the wall puts you back on the rope right away. You will want to jump twice in quick succession here to go flying off that blue rope, whoaaa!
- The extendo at :23 can be tricky and very punishing. You want to roll through the 1st krem while holding Y, then release as you roll through the 2nd krem, then repress Y before you leave the ledge. The tricky part is timing your jump out of the roll. You need to jump after you roll completely through the blue rope, or else you will be teleported to the previous rope and hit the bee. If you timed your extendo poorly (probably too late on repress), but still made it past the blue rope, you will grab the blue rope and instantly die off the bottom. Cool trick.
